Carolyn Imrie

Carolyn is a Mental Health nurse who has worked in the MH field for 40 years. She is a qualified counsellor and Gestalt therapist. Trained as psychiatric nurse in Scotland Carolyn originally migrated to Australia in 1989. For the past 27 years she has worked in a Melbourne metropolitan MH service primarily in the Psychological Trauma Recovery Service outpatients as a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering group treatment programs and individual therapy for veterans, serving members and emergency service personnel. Alongside this role she has also been working as a clinical nurse educator and been involved with building up a structure for MH nurses to access reflective clinical supervision within the service she works in. In her primary role now as a clinical nurse educator, Carolyn counts it a privilege to continue promoting and supporting nurses in her service to access and engage in clinical supervision for themselves, as a means of being accountable, sustaining themselves in the challenges they face working in the mental health field and reflecting on their practice to be the best clinicians they can be in working with their clients.